HOOVER, Ala. – Time doesn’t march on, it sprints by rapidly. Calendar pages are shuffled like a deck of cards in the hands of a Las Vegas blackjack dealer. Fifty years whisk by.
Can it be that long ago that a young Tennessean greeted the inaugural 1966 troop of SEC Skywriters in Gainesville on his way to winning a Heisman, launching one of the most famous football careers in history?
Yes. And I was there that day on the maiden voyage, about to depart Gainesville with 45 others in a rickety DC-9 prop plane. I never dreamed such a journey over time would become such a joy ride for followers and believers of SEC football.